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...aristocracy and privileged morality. He lays his ironies on with a trowel and drives his points home with a bludgeon. The direction is uneven. As in Joe Egg, which he also filmed, Director Medak frequently has his actors break into ironic renditions of old pop songs, like Varsity Drag or Dem Bones, a device whose brittle charm crumbles with repetition. He also persists in having his films wretchedly photographed. The Ruling Class looks as if it were shot under floodlights...
...case of Samuel L. Popkin, assistant professor of Government, continued to drag on this summer, and looked no closer to conclusion in September than it did at school's closing last June...
...case seesawed back and forth in the courts all last year, and seemed far from a conclusion in August. At times it looked as though Popkin would face immanent imprisonment: at others, the government appeared to be retreating at full speed. The case is likely to drag on well into the coming year.SAMUEL L. POPKIN...
...secret poll of Democratic county leaders in Wisconsin, a strong McGovern state that is in many ways an American microcosm, found 38% of those interviewed believed Eagleton to be so serious a drag on the ticket that he should go. Yet McGovern may have somewhat misjudged the voters' response to the Eagleton revelations. In a poll carried out for TIME last week by Crossley Surveys Inc., 76.7% of those interviewed said that Eagleton's medical record would not affect their vote (see box). A significant number said they were ready to switch from supporting McGovern or being neutral...
...text in Caesar. Although Antony is one of the longer plays in the canon, Kahn has made only a handful of tiny snips. He is to be commended for keeping the text almost intact, but censured at the same time for allowing so many scenes to drag. The result is a performance that, with one 15-minute intermission, runs to three and a half hours...